Feed Them Social <= 1.6.9 - Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

2015-02-02 00:00

James Hooker

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.7.0

Affected PluginFeed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries

Affected Version<= 1.6.9

CVSS9.8Critical

CVECVE-2015-9351

View all Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The feed-them-social plugin before 1.7.0 for WordPress has possible shortcode execution in the Facebook Feeds load more button.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.7.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')) The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9351 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67c7e67e-3e68-4f49-9d81-fa0ed451376e

CVSS Vector

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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